Sentencing date of 15 year old who hacked CIA/FBI/US Justice Department/etc to be announced soon

in #blog7 years ago (edited)

Above is Kane Gamble (lookin like an inter-dimensional demon?), who, 3 years ago, managed to hack into the:

CIA
FBI
US Justice Department

The personal computers of:

Former Director of US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
White House deputy national security adviser
Director of National Intelligence
Deputy Director of Homeland
President Obama's Senior Science and Technology Adviser

all at the age of 15/16, and from his semi-isolated house located in Coalville, Leicestershire (Britain). Gamble shook the cyber security world back in 2016 when he was caught hacking into the United States highest levels of classified intelligence, as well as harass the families of arguably some of the most powerful figures of America.

(Note that all Gamble's excursions occurred during Obama's administration)

He is most well know for digitally impersonating as John Brennan, the then director of CIA. (as shown below)
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(John Brennan at a testimony at Capitol Hill) (also, he looks hella stressed)

As said before, he was successfully able to digitally impersonate John Brennan, although what he was able to access was not disclosed to the media, nor did Gamble himself publicly expose the data.

Here is a statement from Gamble on why he carried out his hacks: “It all started by me getting more and more annoyed about how corrupt and cold blooded the US Government are so I decided to do something about it.”

Along with Mr. Brennan, Gamble was able to successfully mask himself as Mark Giuliano (shown below), to an FBI helpdesk, essentially gaining access to most of everything the FBI held.

He publicly took pride in that he was able to access (and essentially control to a degree) the FBI’s Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEAP). LEAP was a database of criminal intelligence, details of police officers among other government employees. He bragged: “This has to be the biggest hack, I have access to all the details the Feds use for background checks.”
Even when the FBI realized they were breached and changed the passwords, Gamble was able to regain access with a simple phone call to a helpdesk. (10/10 security guys. . .)
Fortunately, he did not incur any damage to the database, or other FBI commodities.

However, he did do some damage when he was able to hack the computers of US Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence.

(Jeh Charles Johnson/US Secretary of Homeland Security)

(James Clapper/Director of National Intelligence)
Please remember that there has been a change of leadership for both positions since the inauguration of President Trump.

To quote Mr Lloyd-Jones QC, one of the barristers (Britain's equivalent of judges) of Gamble's case, Gamble was able to access “... some extremely sensitive accounts referring to, among other things, military operations and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran.” which he promptly released on Wikileaks among other whistle-blowing websites.

Note that with all of the hacks thus far, he had complete control over the electronics of each directors, including the ones we have not mentioned. This includes access to personal voice mails, texts, emails, etc. Even 'Swatting' the John Holdren, (shown below) the senior Science and Technology Officer for President Obama.

(Swatting is the act of calling the police and fraudulently reporting a serious enough crime for the police to respond with a full SWAT response)

He was eventually caught when he attempted to hack the US Department of Justice, which he did successfully, allowing him to access details of 20,000 FBI employees and case files including that on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

However, the information leak was, now at this point, fortunately minimized, with only the military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran. He claimed that he did not wish to conduct any more data leaks as he claimed “because it put lives at risk, but then I thought they are killing innocent people every day” (oooo reaallllyyyy ya little twat)

However, his conscious did not stop him from harassing the families of the Directors he hacked, emailing their family members pornography, inappropriate messages, etc.

Currently, the medical experts for the defense argue that he is on the autism spectrum and at the time of his offending had the mental development of a 12 or 13-year-old.

More to read at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/19/british-15-year-old-gained-access-intelligence-operations-afghanistan/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5290787/Boy-15-posed-head-CIA-secret-files.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-you-hacker-son-national-11880543

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